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Remote Procedure Call (A communication mechanism that allows computers to communicate with one another over a network. An RPC consists of a procedure identifier, parameters passed to the procedure, and a value returned to the caller (client computer) after the procedure has executed on the remote system (server computer)) |
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English thesaurus |
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IT |
The traditional Internet service protocol widely used for many years on UNIX-based operating systems and supported by the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF that allows a program on one computer to execute a program on another (The primary benefit derived from its use is that a system developer need not develop specific procedures for the targeted computer system. For example, in a client-server arrangement, the client program sends a message to the server with appropriate arguments, and the server returns a message containing the results of the program executed. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) are two newer object-oriented methods for related RPC functionality; e.g., server) |
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abbr., astronaut., mil. |
RPC (Internet) |
abbr., file.ext. |
RPC |
IT, abbr. |
RPC (Sun, Xerox, OSF, ECMA, RFC 1831) |
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mil., abbr. |
RPC |